How to take professional photos with your phone

We recently discovered that the iPhone has become the most commonly used camera amongFlickrusers. Of course, there are photography purists who will say that taking a photo with your phone isn’t the same as using a sophisticated SLR camera, but the results speak for themselves. An improvement in the quality of camera phones, coupled with some great apps that really let you get creative, and you’d be amazed what kinds of photos you can take with your phone....

8 min · 1630 words · Wendy Levy

How to teach yourself computer science: A developer’s 100-hour journey

How to teach yourself computer science: A developer’s 100-hour journey So, why learn computer science by yourself? That’s a simple but important question: why would we do that in the first place? For every project which requires a good amount of motivation, I try firstto define proper goals: Computer science 101: the study plan I’m not interested in trying to read every book about computer science. It should at least provide me some sense of understanding....

6 min · 1142 words · Regina Snyder

How to track Social Media within Google Analytics

For all the information and insight Google’s powerfulAnalyticstools can provide, they’re still only providing some top level figures, primarily Direct, Search and Referral traffic. Think, “Traffic is traffic?” well think again, as more and more marketers and private individuals are drilling deeper to gain a better understanding of what social media actions are resonating well with their communities, and which aren’t. But how do we separate the social media wheat from the day-to-day chaff?...

5 min · 926 words · Anna Perez

How to transfer your Facebook data to other services

Welcome toTNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Facebook has made it easier to quit the social media platform. The company has rebuilt a tool thatmakes it easier to transfer data from Facebook to other services. The “Transfer Your Information” toolwas launched in April to give users more control over their data. It could previouslytransfer notes and posts to Google Docs, Blogger, and WordPress....

2 min · 358 words · Dana Edwards

How to transfer your WhatsApp chats from iPhone to Android

Welcome toTNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. One of the biggest pain points of using WhatsApp for years has been the inability to transfer chats between an iPhone and an Android phone. Till now, if you decided to switch,you had to mostly start over with no chat history on the other platform, or use a bunch of tools to clumsily move your stuff over without a guarantee of success....

2 min · 385 words · Daniel Castaneda
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